The Foxtrot is a dance of four movements where people end up exactly where they started. Foxtrot the film is a study in boredom and grief in three parts in which the lives of the people involved will be permanently affected. In the first part, a father receives two pieces of news about his son who is serving in the Israeli military. One of these is that he is has been killed in action; the other is an even bigger shock. In the second part, we see the son and the rest of his four-man squad manning a sodden checkpoint in the middle of nowhere. The third ties the two together.

Maoz previous film, Lebanon, was set entirely inside a tank. This time he gets to move about a bit but mostly keeps his vision contained to three locations: the father's apartment, the checkpoint and tilting container the squad call home. It mixes dry deadpan humour and high emotion to captures two contrasting emotions: the shattering effrontery of grief and the absurd tedium of military routine.